# Resolved: Jesus did not exist **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230 "2011-01-03T16:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 56
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230/56 "2011-01-05T01:25:08Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Ok, so you seem to be saying that the contraditions, errors, and historical make believe found in the gospels can be explained by the way in which the early oral traditions might have spread before being written down? And this applies ONLY to those events that are obvious fabrications and errors, but NOT to the rest? No, I don’t think I said that, nor anything that can rationally be interpreted as meaning that. What I’ve said (multiple times) is that if you’ve actually got an “obvious fabrications and errors”, “contradictions”, or “historical make believe” that you want me to look at, I’ll be happy to look at it. But first you’ve got to tell me what it is. You’ve mentioned the instances in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew; **septimus** has already responded and explained why that tells us nothing about the other material in the Gospels. Other than that, you haven’t given me any examples of obvious fabrications or errors, so I can’t tell you how I feel about them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230)._